using dos diskettes on a sun(unix)

[Perry Stokes]

In article <MATELGAR.91Jun14131800 at dante.nmsu.edu> matelgar at nmsu.edu (Marek Telgarsky) writes:
>
>	I would like to be able manipulate files on a DOS diskette
>while sitting at a SUN4. There is incompatibility with the file
>allocator that unix uses with the one that dos does. Does anyone have
>that type of a program, know of a site of where to find one, or has enough
>information to program one (in C)? It is possible to read the blocks
>on a dos diskette on a sun4, but it is straight reading and no
>interpretation by the system. Hence, there is no way to seperate files
>or to see whether there are different files. Any help would be
>appreciated.

Have you looked at mtools?

It's a set of programs for reading/writing/creating MS DOS filesystems
on the 3.5" disk drive on a sun4.


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Perry Stokes
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